Commentary for black move 6:

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, we see that the clocks show 1:55 each remaining for both sides. They have, for those of you who don't know, two hours to make 40 moves, for each side has a clock, a two-faced clock, two hours delegated on each side for the moves. We should also bring up to speed the people who are not able to see. Our audience was not able to see what's happening in house. We are three on stage. We have Indus three video monitors. To our left is a monitor that we keep a running tally of the position at all times. And it shows the current position on the board. Also it shows the moves right below it. Directly behind us we have a monitor showing the computer program, Fritz 4, who helps us with analysis, and we find it's partially biased to Deep Blue, but will -- but is often turncoat when it sees the tile to -- time to switch sides. And to our right is the monitor of the player area of the 35th floor again of the Equitable Building, where Kasparov is apparently pacing back and forth. Seems he is content with the situation. He often just paces. He /HATZ a dressing room that he could go to whenever he wishes, and there's a television monitor in the room so that he can always know what's happening in the game and when it is his turn to move. He's facing an opponent it seems but it is in fact the Deep Blue operator. I believe that is --

DB MOVE: 6...e6.

MAURICE ASHLEY: -- one of the Deep Blue operators, who has now move e7-e6, Jed of /SUFRPG into the center with a double pawn thrust, this move, Yaz, was unanticipated by us on stage.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Most definitely. Many of the computer's algorithms describe to the computer that it's great to push pawns. We have seen that several of times in the match that Deep Blue has thrust its pawn shield protecting its king up the board. So computers love to push pawns. We hadn't anticipated this restrained move e7-e6. The only justification for capturing that knight on f3 was that it controlled the e5 square, and therefore we had anticipated e7-e5. I'd just like to explain one other thing. It's highly unusual fo Garry Kasparov in a top tournament or match would be playing in an enclosed room. It's far more appropriate that he should be on stage where we are and that we would be off in an enclosed room lecturing to an audience such as yourself. However, because the audience would affect Garry Kasparov and not Deep Blue, they're playing in a closed, quiet, sound-proof area where there's no possibility of Garry being disturbed.

MAURICE ASHLEY: In fact n world champion matches, prior world champion matches for example between Karpov and Kasparov in Moscow, there would be an audience of 3,000 in the hall and these guys would be on stage and you could not tell those Russian fans to keep quiet because they wanted to shout out moves. (Audience laughter.)

YASSER SEIRAWAN: He is absolutely right. In fact, in several world championship matches, the Russian audience, who is really, really dare their culture loves and embraces chess, not quite like ourselves, although yourselves are making believers of me, the Russian audience understood when a mistake was being made, and when a mistake had been made there was a whole rustling crowd in the audience and it almost seemed to alert the players. They go "Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. How about that? You blundered." Because the audience understood what was going on. Now let's go back to h3 where the bishop captured the knight.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Okay.

MIKE VALVO: From a computer's perspective if it played Bh5 the other move, if I was concerned -- it might be concerned about g4 Bg -- Bg67 -- it may have been concerned about the doubled pawn needlessly. That may be the reason why it was concerned, because of the pawn structure.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: An interesting point by Mike. Obviously ux, Mike, you and I both know that Garry would not have pursued that variation, but it doesn't matter. It's what the computer thinks, or worries about, and that is potentially one of the reasons why it played the way it did.

MIKE VALVO: I once played a match against a computer where we didn't let the computer have any book at all, and we just explore the opening lines and see what the computer would think. And there would be situations where the computer would notice, in its analysis, better moves for me, even though I didn't make them, and then the next time we played the same line, /T-RPLD the prior game it wouldn't go into this because it knew I had a better move. And that's the consequence of something like this. The computer knows that Garry could do something, even if he never intended to do it it wouldn't go into it because it knew it could be done.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Good point. Well, we do have a full afternoon for you. There are a number of guests we often bring on stage. Today we have that the IBM today, Matt who is the on the technical team, he won't give us too many secrets, but we'll try to get -- and later we'll also have woman's world champion Susan Polgar who was with us last time and she offered some tremendous insights into what was going on in the last game, and later we will have former U.S. -- actually two-time U.S. champion Grandmaster Patrick Wolff and he'll be on stage to offer his insights as to how the match is going -- how this game is going and how the match is going so far. We should also mention that we have some youngsters in the audience who have been invited here by IBM. I believe it is P.S. 116, P.S. 116. Let's give them a hand. (Applause.) May be a future Bobby Fischer in the crowd. Who is the best player in P. S. 116? Is there an agreement here? Okay, what's your name? Youngster right here. Give him the microphone.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Flynn.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Flynn?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Nods head.)

AUDIENCE MEMBER: --

MAURICE ASHLEY: Who do you like in this match, Flynn, Kasparov or Deep Blue?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Kasparov.

MAURICE ASHLEY: And what do you think about this game so far? What's your opinion on this game right now?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Has white got a better position or --

AUDIENCE MEMBER: It's even.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Sorry?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: It's even. Said with authority! It's even.

MIKE VALVO: He's right.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Good suggestion. Okay, Flynn, we'll be back over there asking some more opinions and if you see some more good moves, let us know, okay?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Also, throughout the afternoon we'll be asking for questions from members of the audience. There's a roving mike. We do point out, please take the time to accept the mike and then ask questions of any of us on stage, and we'll be very happy to --

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